The longer a TV show goes, the more likely "romance" plots will be shoehorned . Who's fucking who plots kill shows. Even kids/family shows fall to this, as they introduce "Dating"
>>219891685Women generally lose interest if there's not some form of romance subplot shoehorned in eventually
Hot take for this website, but romance and dating are often significant events in a person's life, and it's not unusual for media to reflect that.
Carter in Stargate SG1
>>219891720There and "romance" and Romance. "romance" is "will they, won't they?" and "Who's fucking who?"
>>219891751What's Romance then? Relating to Latin Roman empire?
>>219891743Picard and CrusherCarter and O'NeilChakotay and Janewayit's all just official shipping
>>219891773When they have good plots when it comes to characters getting together, instead of edging the audience.
>>219891685Later seasons have smaller budgets and the best writers move on to newer projects. The writers they bring in are cheap, inexperienced, and often have an agenda, or at the very least, very few unique ideas.
>>219891685CW's Arrow got ruined because of this shit
>>219891804Can you give an example that you would consider well done?
>>219891685I wouldn't mind cop shows getting bogged down in romance so much if it wasn't always between the 2 leads that worked just fine without it for yearsThe big bang theory needed the shakeup from everybody ending up in relationships though
>>219891886I would say "The Office" is one of the better examples. Their "Will they wont they" was only a few episodes and didn't detract from the main show. As opposed to "Lois and Clark" where the Will they Won't they was the entire damn show
>>219891720True. This is why you see so many people bitching about sex scenes nowadays. 70% of zoomer males can't even get their first kiss, so sex scenes make them really sad and insecure and angry.
>>219892681The one guy I know who can't get a date into his late 30s is like this. He has a full on fucking meltdown at Valentines every year. EVERY YEAR.
Love triangles are always insufferable time wasting, plot derailing bullshit, prove me wrong.
>>219891685The walking dead suffered from this, doesn't help that all the white characters ended up with black partners
>>219891720>romance and dating are often significant events in a person's life
>>219891858Arrow and flash both got ruined the second either main character got together with his oneitis (Felicity and Iris) and the oneitis became fucking insufferable for the rest of the shows run(s)
>>219891858>>219893342That's not at all what ruined them. What ruined them is they kept expanding the cast. The more heroes there are on the team, the more of a bumbling idiot they have to make the MC seam to give everyone else a time to shine. Picrel is only half the team.
The X-files technically ended on the fifth season with the aptly named episode "the end" with Mulder and Scully having a platonic relationship.
